Awards & Acknowledgments
2023 Nominee for the Best of the Net Anthology for the poem 'Baptism'
2022 Nominee for the 48th Annual Pushcart Prize Anthology for the poem 'Candy Cigarettes'
2021 Nominee for the 47th Annual Pushcart Prize Anthology for the poem 'Kabul'
2021 Nominee for the Best of the Net Anthology for the poem 'The Transfer'
Winner of a 2017 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation St. Paul Arts Challenge grant for the project 'Poetry Unbound'
Winner of the 1998 'Blood & Feathers' Chapbook Series Contest
"Perhaps You Were Never So Small" and "In the Newborn Intensive Care Unit" appeared in
The Road by Heart: Poems of Fatherhood [Nodin Press]
"After the Storm" appeared in
It Starts with Hope: Writings and Images of Hope donated to
The Center for Victims of Torture [Nodin Press]
"After the Marathon" and "In the Newborn Intensive Care Unit" appeared in
"It's an Old Story" and "Little Song" appeared in
Whistling Shade Literary Journal
"Sauna" appeared in
"Leaving the Light On" appeared in
The Quiver Review
"What the Burglar Left," "Sirens," "In the Trenches," "Junk Drawer," "Stone," "Light Sleeper," "The Transfer," "Smiles," "Whale Constellation," "At the Zoo," "Last Words," "Memory Care," "Of This World," "What My Father Found," "When, For a Moment, I Grow Weary," "Kabul," "The Nameless Bird," "All the Love We Lay Claim To," "Brother Song," "Sitting with my Sister," "Last Photograph with my Sister," "The Buggy," "At the Naturalization Ceremony," "Candy Cigarettes," "Storm," "Baptism," "Sensitive," and "My Daughter Speaks of Birds," and "Cleaning the Rooms"
have appeared in
"In the MRI," "These Rooms," "When All This is Over," and "Cousteau" appeared in
"Night Work" appeared in
"I Trace the Lines of Every Poem" appeared in
Insomnia & Poetry
"Figure in the Rain," "Winter Poem," "Yes, It Is," and "Rain in New Orleans" appeared in
"In an Imaginary Barn Alone" appeared in
Thin Coyote and South Ash Press
"Museum" appeared in
"Moving" appeared in
Writers' Journal
"With Molly at the Bad Habit Cafe" appeared in
First Class
"Outside the Uptowner Cafe, Thinking of the Afternoon She Did Not Die" appeared in
Thin Coyote
"First Snow" appeared in
Newsletter Inago and Devil Blossoms
"Hypothesis" appeared in
"November Feeling" appeared in
Understanding Magazine
"The Sculptor" and "Procession" appeared in
"The Bloodlines of Leaves" appeared in
Poetic Page, Short Stories Bimonthly, and Poetic Eloquence